Connect your child with family, friends, co-worker and neighbors to learn what they do for work or for a hobby.

Developing Positive Values for Learning

Carol Dweck, a motivation researcher, describes the “mindset” needed for learning. Parents and Teachers can teach their students to have a “growth mindset” that allows for struggle and failure on the path to understanding. Children need to know that there is value in hard work and that their hard work makes a difference to their success.

Linking Interests to School

Interest areas provide natural learning opportunities. For example, consider a child who shows an interest in baseball. Think of the many ways you can link this interest to academics

Where are the teams from, Find the players’ home towns on a map,

What is the history of the team’s name,

What are the physics of a "knuckleball"?

You do not have to be an expert, just be willing to explore.

What if there is a learning problem at school?

Gifted students are not always successful in school. Below you will find link to information on possible obstacles and ways to surmount them.

"To be interested, to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by some object…We say of an interested person that he has both lost himself in some affair and he has found himself in it." --Dewey, 1916